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Didn't that used to be called a cherry bomb????

Hoping to go up Thursday-finally.....jk

Look like 10 pounders good job......jk

Ne report everyone.  I followed the best I could, just could not make it.....jk

Been up to the chibougamau area 60-70 times since the early '80.  Can't argue with his advice.  But do move around constantly until you find good fish.  Try different lakes and as he advised hit those rivers with the small boats that you can hand launch.  Our favorite boat was a 16 foot car top, super lite and we had two engines a 6 and a 15 for small and big water.  Go where other people can't with their big boats for big fish.  Look at maps carry the  in to hidden  spot.  My best day was walleyes and the best pike day was 35 but I never even saw 50 inch fish.  Try the fly rod too.  My biggest pike was 45 1/2.  We took a 40+ on most trips.  I kept a big tackle box in the cabin and a very small one with me

Not just sharper hooks but stiffer rod and braided line for no stretch.  Ya gotta act almost instinctively on a hit, and you need  to delay that on the  bumpies.  I don't think you are ever going to get to the 50% point of hookups vs hits.  You have to keep alert.  Sometimes it feels like they just hit the lure with their tail, you have to play into that and tease them into mouthing the lure......jk    

The way fish are held now adays you just can't tell.  It still is bigger than any I have taken this year here in Pa.  I have fished Otisco a lot in the past, both through the ice and from boats.  Was hoping to go to this event but buddy just lost interest in traveling over two hours.  Good luck everyone and keep posting.....jk

Great looking fish!!  26 or7 inches????   I am probably off (some people think I am way off-but away)  No way I could make it......jk

I was expecting the winners to be a bit bigger????

Can't wait for our next trip there.  My main buddy likes Keyuka because it is smaller.....jk

Results please????

Jealous as I have nothing planned right now......jk

Guff this time year We seem to get smaller fish going up the east arm of the lake.  But do good halfway out from the power plant in the middle.  At that point that you mentioned, we get a lot of fish when go up there  but that is not  to often.  And going north from the bluffs the first mile or so seems not to produce for us.  We fish from a  small boat and usually fish the south end, goldseal to the restaurant being our best location........jk

If you get any much bigger than that let us know.  We go every week but they are that size, small and thin.  We have seen some schools of bait but not like in the previous years.  Thanks for posting, the place is not dead but........jk 

Good job, they both look about the same size and both good looking....jk

Yes please, help us and we will try to help all others....jk

On Saturday we turned around and went home, lots of white caps.  You did good, hope you get the  browns but we don't get many at all. That is just us but we only jig.....jk

The more money you earn the more you pay.  congratulations.....jk

We went up on the 2nd and turned around and went home.  To rough for us.....jk

Did not realize that hose blobs on the TV were fleas.  Bandrus! thanks for that comment

Hermit instead of a trailer hook we have been tearing the tenticles in half to make the bait shorter and that seems to work better for us. When  the bait is near the surface we do a lot of casting, hoping for the browns and have had the trailer fowl up on the leader.  We don't get many brows but we try.....jk  never got a brown on Keyuka

Nothing simple.  Lots of little things to do to be successful, just like anything you do.  One of our regular spots there is an 80ish foot deep flat from the tip of the bluffs to the west It goes 1 /4 way across the lake there at that depth.  Sort of an old reliable 1/4 mile square hunk of water.  You gotta see fish first then fish.  Once you  have several old reliable spots you can try to blind fish for them, but at first see them till you have the experience down and faith in the system......jk

It seems to us that as summer goes on the use of spoons gets better.  But basically we use a standard one ounce jig with a white tube, the thin tubes get down the fastest what we look for.   With a good depth finder look for bait or fish and with the electric motor hold over them and drop.  Now most people fish in the 60 to 90 range but we end up in over 100 a lot of times.  Watch your lure on the depthfinder and see how the fish react.   A lot of times you can not reel in fast enough.You will get bumpies, just hitting the lure with their head to disorientate the bait fish and other times an express train going east = hold on...

The weather this week has keep us home bound.  I am even painting the porch (blah-don't like to paint).....jk

We go there most every other week because my buddy likes that lake.  Up until two season ago we did good, real good with mid sized lakers u to a max of 32 inches but heavy and a lot of fish.  BUT the alewives died off (why???) and the fish are smaller and much thinner.  We get a limit most every time but now 24 inchers are the monsters there and they are thin.  If you are going there the bluffs (where the two forks meet) is the most common spot  It seems to us the east fork, the futhur up you go the smaller the fish.  The west fork half way to the state park has the biggest fish.  We used to always fish the south end.  I prefer Cayuga for size but my main buddy likes Keyuka......jk   oh we are jiggers not trollers